The European Union has approved the coronavirus vaccine from Moderna, leaving the UK trailing because of changes to post-Brexit drug approval rules.
Kate Bingham contradicts Matt Hancock's claim UK authorities backed jabs swiftly "because of Brexit".
This being 2020, it didn't take long for good news about the Pfizer/BioNTech jab to turn into a tiresome row about Brexit.
Education secretary lauds vaccine rollout saying scientists in UK better than in France, Belgium or US.
Coronavirus: Regulator rejects Matt Hancock’s claim that UK got vaccine first because of Brexit
02/12/2020
Britain’s medicines regulator has contradicted claims by health secretary Matt Hancock that the UK got the first coronavirus vaccine faster because of Brexit.
A major voice in the pharma sector echoes warnings that Brexit risks delaying crucial supplies as winter hits its height.
Accountancy firm warns of stalled economic recovery without EU trade agreement.
DISRUPTION to medical supplies and potential coronavirus vaccines as a result of Brexit cannot be ruled out, Scotland’s Deputy First Minister has said.
Health Secretary insists government has ‘plan for all eventualities’.
In the words of another current cliché, UK science is already ‘world-beating’. But researchers are concerned that ministers’ plans may put that status in jeopardy as MARTIN MCQUILLAN reports.
And it will cost more here because of the UK pulling out of the European Medicines Agency on 30 December.
'The government walking away from this EU deal just smacks of ideological dogma'
European scrutiny committee warns that UK approach risks access to vaccine
UK foreign secretary has said EU invite for Covid-19 scheme was sent to old email address.
A coronavirus vaccine could be ready for approval in a year’s time in an “optimistic scenario”, the European Medicines Agency has said.
Experts warn that European Medicines Agency membership would have had advantages.
SCOTLAND'S two chief medical officers has issued a new warning of shortages to the supply of medicines in the event of a 'no deal' Brexit.
No-deal Brexit likely to delay flu vaccine just as 'particularly virulent' strain threatens UK
30/08/2019
Doctors are warning that a no-deal Brexit is likely to delay the supply of flu vaccines, at the same moment that "a particularly virulent" strain of the illness is on its way to our shores.
Vaccines and blood products could be stockpiled ahead of a possible ‘no-deal’ Brexit, the health and social care secretary has confirmed.
A leaked cross-government study warning of the impact of a no-deal Brexit outlines a "worst-case scenario", cabinet minister Michael Gove has said.
Flu vaccine 'could be airlifted into the UK' in event of no-deal, warns French drugs firm
26/03/2019
Flu vaccine could be airlifted into the UK after Brexit if routes such as the Channel Tunnel and ferries are disrupted, the boss of a leading drugs company has said.